COLDEX REU program alumni: Summer 2022

The COLDEX REU program ran in pilot form during Summer 2022. Learn more about the undergraduate researchers that took part in the program!

Participants in Zoom windows looking at a piece of ice with bubbles in it

COLDEX Director for Field Research and Data Peter Neff showing off bubbles in a piece of Antarctic ice in our summer 2022 COLDEX undergraduate researcher workshop series

participants in Zoom windows asking questions of three graduate student panelists in the center of the screen

Undergraduate researchers asking questions about graduate school in a panel with COLDEX graduate students Kaden Martin, Jenn Campos Ayala, and Skyler Jacob

Undergraduate researchers ask questions during a Science Communication panel with Laura Tenenbaum, COLDEX PhD candidate Cate Bruns, and COLDEX Managing Director Danielle Whittaker

Summer 2022 Undergraduate Researchers

Noah Brown

University of Washington, working with Lindsey Davidge, Andrew Schauer, Maciej Sliwinski, and Eric Steig

I am helping design a system that produces high quality isotope data from ice cores so we can better understand and predict our planet’s climate.

Angelina Bucco

University of Maine, working with Andrei Kurbatov

I am interested in researching past fire history and volcanic activity recorded in ice cores, and how this relates to shifts in the climate system.

 

Demetria Eves

California State University, Long Beach, working with Ed Brook , Julia Marks Peterson, and Katie Wendt at Oregon State University

I am interested in collaborative paleoclimate research, which is critical for establishing accurate and useful climate data from all scientific perspectives.

Olivia Forshee

Macalester College, working with Cate Bruns and Heidi Roop at the University of Minnesota

I am interested in conducting lifesaving research in climate, water, and/or soil that could have major, long-term environmental impacts and policy implications.

 

Anusha Goswami

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, working with Sarah Aarons and Austin Carter

I am interested in conducting research that looks into the influence earth systems have on the socioeconomic and biological determinants of human health. 

Rhys-Jasper León

University of California, Irvine, working with Jenn Campos-Ayala and Eric Saltzman

 I am currently reconstructing a biomass burning record during Dansgaard-Oeschger event 8 by measuring acetylene gas in the GISP2D ice core to explore how fire activity has varied with climate.

 

Haley Lowes-Bicay

University of Washington, working with Andrew Schauer and Eric Steig

I am interested in researching how to improve ice core data collection and analysis in order to understand the paleoclimate, improving climate models and their predictions.

Sebastian Miller

Oregon State University, working with Ed Brook

My research is concerned with investigating the viability of cave ice from Lava Beds National Monument as a paleoclimate proxy.

 

Ellen Mutter

Post-baccalaureate researcher, Amherst College, working with Nick Holschuh

My research uses ice penetrating radar data from historic deep ice core drilling sites to investigate if/when radar data can be used to identify stratigraphic deformation that has compromised the climate record.

Emily Rice

Oregon State University, working with Ed Brook

 

Trisha Sheth

University of Kansas, working with John Paden

My research interest consists of building guided user interfaces, for CReSIS, so other researchers around the globe can have access to the information/data collected by the engineers and scientists.

Sierra Smith

Oregon State University working with Katie Wendt

Kyle Suen

University of California Irvine, working with John Patterson and Eric Saltzman

I am looking at fire-derived compounds from old Alaska ice to see when fires happened, which will help us predict how future fires will affect Alaska’s climate.